[I noticed that you didn’t refute that you like Dragon Maid.]
"She" smiled lightly in Shade's ear, and when Shade couldn't refute, he still chose to pretend not to hear.
Whether it was out of fear of Shade or Flora really convinced them, in the following conversation, the two dragonborn ladies answered all of Shade's questions intermittently.
First of all, dragonborn blood will definitely not be spread through intimate behaviors, so they are indeed relatives. The aristocratic lady Anne Dupont is the last generation of children of the disappeared Jindel family, and the maid Jessica is married to her.
a common great-grandfather.
Among them, Anne Dupont's dragonborn bloodline manifested itself when she was very young, and her elders who had not yet passed away at that time taught her how to control this "cursed power."
As for the maid Jessica, she was just an ordinary person when she applied to be the maid of Colonel Dupont's family. It was only after she started having an affair with the colonel's wife about five years ago that she gradually showed such inhuman characteristics.
The two people who didn't understand anything at first thought that Anne Dupont's curse was transmitted to the maid who had had close contact. However, after hiring a private detective to investigate and learning that the two had a common ancestor, they understood that the curse of the maid Jesse
Ka also has Jindel's cursed bloodline.
"I need to correct you. This is not a curse, this is the awakening of the Dragonborn bloodline."
Shade said by the fire. At this time, the three high-ring girls hidden in the forest also came to rest by the fire. Shade called them over to warn Anne Dupont not to have other ideas.
"As for the sudden awakening of this young lady's bloodline, it does have something to do with the close relationship between the two of you."
Shade had gained knowledge about dragons, so he deduced from an academic perspective:
"The bloodlines of the two of you come from the same source. When you are in close contact, the spiritual power stirs up together, and it is possible that the activated bloodline of one party can inspire the bloodline of the other. However, this method is often used when the elders use mental power to assist the younger ones in meditation.
Yes, what you did is quite rare."
"How rude!"
The colonel's wife then picked up a dead branch and threw it at Shade to protest his words. Shade took the branch and threw it into the fire:
"In this way, it can be explained that you look so young. Anti-aging is a very common characteristic of Dragonborn. I just sensed your power. Although it is beyond ordinary people, it is still very different from normal Dragonborn.
Yes, your dragonborn bloodline is very weak, and it was not activated during your puberty, so your youth should be the most inhuman characteristic you acquire."
"We are human beings, please don't call us inhumane."
The young maid whispered to the side, and Flora asked curiously:
"Madame Dupont, don't your two children show the same characteristics as you?"
"No."
The latter immediately shook his head:
"When I first gave birth to them, I was very worried, and even considered taking the initiative to confess my family's secrets to my husband. But fortunately, the inheritance of this bloodline is not stable. In fact, before me, the Jindel family had two children in a row.
This characteristic does not appear in modern generations.
When the children are older, I will confess this to them to prevent any of their descendants from having this trait."
Although Mrs. Anne Dupont also doesn't know what a "ring warlock" is, she has heard that some people in this world can use very magical powers, but she is also certain that the Jindel family should not have appeared in the past two hundred years.
Such a powerful person.
And when Flora asked her about the origin of the Jindel family's bloodline, the colonel's wife thought for a long time before speaking. It was not that she refused to answer, but that she had to recall carefully:
"My family told me about this when I was a kid, but I didn't listen carefully. It seems that when our family just moved to Ximu Town from another place, an elder in the family saw a very strange egg in the woods.
Out of curiosity, he wanted to know what was inside the egg, so he tried to hatch it.
It took him many years to give birth to the strange creature in the egg, and he took care of it as a baby. But when the thing grew up, he repaid the favor with a grudge, cursed us, and left."
If you replace "strange creatures" with "dragons", the story will be much easier to understand, but Flora and Shade don't think it is "repaying kindness with enmity":
"Then do you know how your ancestors obtained a large amount of wealth and established a foothold in Ximu Town?"
Shade asked again, and the maid Jessica shook her head. She didn't even know that her bloodline came from the Jindel family until recent years. Anne Dupont showed a clear sense of stupidity:
"Doing business."
"What business?"
"For the smuggling business to Delarion, I know that our family is related to the duke family in the North Kingdom. Judging from your expressions, doesn't that sound like this?"
"Of course not. Your family was able to earn so much wealth in Ximu Town as outsiders just because of the strange things in the woods you mentioned."
Schade did not mention "dragon dung" directly:
"We keep our promise and will not disturb your life anymore. But do you really not know anything else about the Jindel family?"
The colonel's wife frowned again and recalled, and finally the maid reminded her:
"What you said, and those things."
Then Anne Dupont remembered:
"After my parents passed away, the original business of the family was handed over to professional managers, and the contact with MI6 was also cut off. This is true, at least my generation has absolutely nothing to do with the North Country!
Our old house burned down due to a fire more than ten years ago. However, our old house still has a basement, and there may be some things in the basement. The fire should not have burned underground."
"what else?"
"I don't know. The house has been deserted since it burned down. My parents said before that after I get married, the surname Jindel will slowly disappear. Jindel should not belong here in the first place. I can wait peacefully until the end like this.
It is a good thing for everyone, and they have finally repaid the debt owed by their ancestors to the Cavendish family."
The "debt" here refers to the affair between Duke Jindel's brother and the queen, but today's Colonel's wife is unaware of such a royal scandal.
After saying this, she assured:
"That's really all I know. You can take whatever you like in the basement of the old house. You don't need to tell me. If you want it, I can give you the title deed and house deed of the house. Anyway, leave it there."
It’s useless. Are you really not going to disturb our lives in the future?”
The artist lady continued to play the good guy and said with a smile:
"Of course I won't disturb you, and we don't want your old house. But if there are other things you need to ask about later, we may visit you again. Of course, it's just a visit, and we will bring gifts."
"Excuse me, is there any way you can make us become like normal people?"
The maid Jessica who was huddled next to Anne Dupont asked again, so Flora looked at Shade, who also shook his head;
"I'm really sorry. The characteristics on your body are inherited by blood. No one can change this kind of thing."
However, he thought that groups such as the [Blood Spirit School] and the [Truth Society] who love "biological experiments" are also in Vista City, and he added:
"If someone says they can help you get rid of these characteristics, don't believe it. There have been a lot of bad guys coming to Vista City recently. If you don't want to end up like the Kant family, it's better not to have anything to do with us ring warlocks anymore."
Shade was able to find the Jindel family because of the memories read by the doctor who swallowed the demon. The Jindel family has completely disappeared so far, so he is sure that no one will be able to find the colonel's wife for that dragon beast.
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After sending the fleeing master and servant back to the city, Shade and Flora returned to the hotel and called the purple-eyed fortune teller who was good at finding things, and then went directly to the Jindel family's residence in the city.
An old house in the Northeast.
Due to the relocation of the city, it is now considered an area outside the edge of the city. Large tracts of farmland surround the burned manor. When the carriage passed the Hoy Manor after the fire, Shade suddenly thought of the fire in Jindel's old house.
Could it also be related to the devil?
But at least on the surface, the old Jindel House just experienced an ordinary fire, so the manor was not burned to the ground and still maintained its basic framework.
The ruins of the manor are adjacent to the small village outside the city. A tributary of the Aronson River passes between the ruins of the manor and the village. Shade can simply imagine that in the summer, the children in the village will cross the river from the bridge and run into the manor.
Play hide and seek.
Because they were worried that they would encounter trouble during this trip, in addition to Flora and Luvia, Tifa also came with three maids from the High Circle who came from the North Kingdom. The group of seven people was too conspicuous, so they did not pass by
Instead of walking around the village, we made a long circle and came directly to the gate of the manor.
When the carriage was about to stop, Shade saw someone in the ruins from a distance. So he signaled the girl driving the car to stop in advance and asked everyone to wait here for a while while he walked towards the direction of the ruins.
The river has not yet frozen, and the successive autumn rains have caused the water level to rise upstream. Now you can hear the gurgling sound of water standing in the ruins of the manor. The elderly Professor Uke Wood looks like he has just left the house.
After walking out of the ruins and seeing Shade waving hello, he walked towards him with a smile in the yard overgrown with withered grass:
"Mr. Watson, what a coincidence, we meet again."
"Yeah, what a coincidence."
Shade also smiled and answered, shaking hands with him:
"I was asked by my friends in the North to investigate the relationship between the local Jindel family and the Duke family in the North. Professor, are you here for this too?"